I am in Grade 5

Radio clips: Interview with a Tree
Listen to these fun radio clips as kids interview a variety of trees on curriculum related topics in the 2020 and 2022 Arbor Day Interview with a Tree Competition. There are so many interesting things to learn about trees. Give it a try!

Infographic series: marine and waste – source to sea, reduce your footprint, trash-free oceans
These fun, informative infographics will help you learn how to reduce the waste that often ends up in our oceans.

Infographic: Fisheries
This beautifully illustrated infographic shows how important our fisheries are to our well-being.

Poster: Fire - Report Smoke and Fire
This poster reminds us of the important numbers to call to report smoke and fire. Useful for community groups and for teachers when educating on fire safety.

Radio clip: Fire - Emergency Numbers - Afrikaans
Knowing how to report a fire is an important safety aspect. These short Afrikaans and isiXhosa radio clips tell you how.

Radio clip: Fire - emergency contact numbers - English
Need to know how to react and who to call in event of a fire? This short radio clip gives you the important numbers needed for fire safety.

Lesson plan and presentation: Biodiversity and soil – teachers' workshop (Grade 5)
Planet Earth is made of rocks. This workshop aimed at teachers focuses on important topics such as biodiversity and soil conservation.

Activity: Fire – cut out the firefighter
Print out this page and cut out the firefighter and his clothes as a fun activity for the classroom or at home.

Education manual: Fire – wildfire awareness toolkit for educators
For many areas of the Western Cape, it is not a matter of if a wildfire is going to occur, but when. This wild-fire awareness toolkit covers topics around wildfires in the Western Cape, including wildfire risk, climate change, the rising costs of wildfire response and limitations to wildfire firefighting.

Flipchart: fire awareness
There are two kinds of fire: useful fires and harmful (or dangerous) fires. We use useful fires to cook, keep us warm or braai. Harmful fires, on the other hand, can cause serious damage to lives and livelihoods, including causing the death of animals or burning down homes.

Activity booklet: Fire – ages 3 to 8
Do you know the difference between good fires and bad fires? In this activity book, you’ll learn all about fire and how it affects our lives. Here, you’ll also find interactive games such as word search puzzles around fires.

Presentation: The web of life - all about interdependence
The world is made up of a variety of plants and animals, and we call the variety of life on Earth biodiversity. These make up the web of life, where each living thing depends on the other for survival.